SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY was born at Monaghan, Ireland, April 12th, 1816, and educated at the Monaghan Public School and the “Belfast Institution.” In 1842 he threw himself with ardor into the movement inaugurated by O’Connell, whom he supported in the Nation, a newspaper founded by him and published in Dublin. He was prosecuted in 1843 with O’Connell, and again in 1848. The charge in 1848 was “treason felony,” but after an imprisonment of ten months he was released. He had founded the Irish Confederation of 1846 and the Tenant League; but in 1856, despairing of accomplishing anything for Ireland, he resigned his place in parliament and went to Australia, where in 1871 he became Prime Minister. In 1880 he returned to Europe and took up his residence at Nice. Among his miscellaneous works are “The Ballad Poetry of Ireland,” “Conversations with Carlyle,” “Bird’s-Eye View of Irish History,” and “Life in Two Hemispheres.”